Agricultural holdings

Topics Agriculture and forestry, fisheries

255,010 agricultural holdings

28,630 holdings with organic farming

875,900 agricultural workers

Press releases

20 September 2021 50% of agricultural holdings had additional sources of income in 2020

More security through additional business activities: more and more agricultural holdings try to reduce the risk of strong income fluctuations by diversifying their income. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that half of all agricultural holdings in Germany obtained income from agriculture-related activities in addition to primary agricultural production in 2020.

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Agricultural holdings with additional gainful activities, by selected types of activity

6 September 2021 2020 Census of Agriculture shows continuing decline in workforce

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20 July 2021 Who owns agriculture?
Importance of enterprise groups studied for the first time

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14 July 2021 Number of holdings with organic livestock farming up 41%

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2 July 2021 Livestock farming in the last decade: less but larger holdings

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18 June 2021 Significant increase in organic farms and organically farmed areas in the last decade

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Agricultural holdings

Employees and farm succession

Database

GENESIS-Online

More data on agricultural holdings are available from the GENESIS-Online database.

The database content will continuously be extended, and links will be provided here.

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